The labourers were paid $2.75 per day. There are no obvious sign of the brickyard now, except that over the years the beach became littered with pieces of culled broken and misshapen bricks.
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| Brickyard Beach, Gabriola Island |
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Brickyard Beach, Gabriola Island
Today, Jake and I went to explore Brickyard Beach. From the late 1890's to 1951, Gabriola Islanders, Chinese contract labourers and immigrant workers produced up to 80,000 bricks a day - all by hand at the Gabriola Brickyard. Output was high. For example, the 1920 BC Report of the Minister of Mines states that Gabriola Shale Products manufactured more than three and a half million bricks for "building purposes" that year.
The labourers were paid $2.75 per day. There are no obvious sign of the brickyard now, except that over the years the beach became littered with pieces of culled broken and misshapen bricks.
The labourers were paid $2.75 per day. There are no obvious sign of the brickyard now, except that over the years the beach became littered with pieces of culled broken and misshapen bricks.
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